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Pop Go The Sixties

Postby alanbakewell » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:29 pm

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology I've just been watching "Pop Go The Sixties" courtesy of "Catch Up" on BBC 4.

The programme featured, The Kinks, The Tremoloes, The Who amongst others and some blokes with white guitars playing a tune
that should be played with red guitars. I.E. "Apache".

All of the above were miming with the notable exception of...........yes you've guessed it................The Tremeloes singing
"Silence Is Golden".

The whole thing is only about fifteen minutes long. A great watch to remind us of how folks looked back then.
And how good the music sounded to us back then.

If you've got the facility it's worth a look and listen.

Cheers, Alan.
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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby Geoff Alderton LH » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:02 pm

Hi Alan.
The blokes with the white guitars, can someone please tell me who is the drummer?
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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby UlrichS » Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:45 pm

Geoff Alderton LH wrote:Hi Alan.
The blokes with the white guitars, can someone please tell me who is the drummer?
Regaeds Geoff.

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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby donna plasky » Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:53 pm

Hank playing piano, Tony on drums instead of Brian, and Cliff dressed like Austin Powers...I love it. :D

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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby RayL » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:38 am

The Shadows clip was intriguing in all sorts of ways. Hank and Bruce were playing Baldwin Marvins but John Rostill had a Jazz bass in matching white and tortoiseshell. There seemed to be a conspiracy by Stanley Dorfman, the director, that the drummer's face should never be seen (because it was Tony Meehan?). The year was presumably 1968? Or 1969 - was it the same show as Donna's Bachelor Boy clip? The clip was in colour, so it could only have been made for BBC2 (because BBC1 did not go colour until November 1969). I only heard the soundtrack through a silly little TV set speaker, but it sounded like the original 1960 single was being used for the miming.

Jim, Rob, Tony and all you other Shadows archivists - what is the story behind the clip?

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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby JimTidmarsh » Sun Aug 11, 2013 8:03 am

I thought that clip was from the Top of the Pop New Year's Eve edition 1969.
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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby alanbakewell » Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:09 am

It certainly sounded like the original recording to me. Either way it was more a Stratocaster sound than a Burns.

BTW. Is it only me that noticed more than a passing resemblance between John Rostill and a certain left handed good friend of mine
from Doncaster who shares with me, youthful appearance, a high level of guitar skills, a photogenic, camera friendly fresh face.

O.K. then, we'll give Daniel all of the above. I'll just claim the left handed bit. :D :D
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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby Fenderman » Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:40 am

Where was Brian Bennett? Was he not available for the show?
Also, i would have preferred a live recording rather than miming to the original recording (it's so obvious because Bruce is playing an acoustic on the original and here is playing an electric!)
Still, its an interesting show, is it out on dvd?
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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby George Geddes » Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:04 am

It was indeed 1969 as Jim T says. Stuart Duffy has already posted that Bruce had decided to come back to do the show but wanted Tony to do it - presumably because that made three-quarters of those who were on the original recording (though only Hank and Bruce were on Bachelor boy - which I have always thought was an odd choice to represent Cliff & The Shads 60s output...).

John R was never that keen on the Burns, preferring a Fender Jazz.

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Re: Pop Go The Sixties

Postby JimN » Sun Aug 11, 2013 1:49 pm

John Rostill had stopped using the Burns Shadows Bass by the time of that TV show (31/12/1969?).

He had been using the white pre-CBS Jazz Bass on the tours that year of both Japan and the UK.
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